Social computing prototypes probe the social behaviors that may arise in an envisioned
system design. This prototy** practice is currently limited to recruiting small groups of …

Algorithmic systems---from rule-based bots to machine learning classifiers---have a long
history of supporting the essential work of content moderation and other curation work in …

Quality control is critical to open production communities like Wikipedia. Wikipedia editors
enact border quality control with edits (counter-vandalism) and new article creations (new …

The governance of many online communities relies on rules created by participants.
However, prior work provides limited evidence about how these self-governance efforts …

Economies-and the government institutions that support them-reflect a moral and political
choice, a choice we can make and remake. Since the dawn of industrialization and …

Large-scale quantitative analyses have shown that individuals frequently talk to each other
about similar things in different online spaces. Why do these overlap** communities exist …

Why do some peer production projects do a better job at engaging potential contributors
than others? We address this question by comparing three Indian language Wikipedias …

Studies of mapper conflict in OpenStreetMap (OSM) have focused exclusively on
cartographic vandalism and its effect on data quality. This paper takes a broader view on …

Online communities, like Wikipedia, produce valuable public information goods. Whereas
some of these communities require would-be contributors to create accounts, many do not …

Most aspects of our lives are governed by large, highly developed institutions that integrate
several governance tasks under one authority structure. But theorists differ as to the …